Before wavepools and luxury surf resorts, a true surf trip meant venturing for days by boat to remote, perfect, barrelling waves in places far, far away. Nias was one of those places. And it still is, ...

Enchanted by Lagundri and eager for more footage, Hoole returned with Thornton and Joe Engel in 1981 to finish shooting ‘Storm Riders’. The rapturous footage of the two natural footers threading the ...

Late afternoons make for the coolest speed blurs at Nias. Here's Tai "Budhha" Graham, laying it down. Photo: Brad Masters Marti Paradisis was having the time of his life this one morning, scoring all ...

Back in the ’80s when Nias was first being talked about, it quickly became known as one of the easier tubes in Indo: “make the drop, and it’s seven seconds of guaranteed bliss into a deep channel”.

The WSL’s Qualifying Series often bears the brunt of surf lingo. “Looking like a QS out there,” is an all-too-common saying when surveying onshore dribble from the parking lot. But every once in a ...